Comments on: Playing Nice with Filesystems http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/ http://blog.thewheatfield.org Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:02:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Sven Oxtoby http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/#comment-2362 Sven Oxtoby Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:18:19 +0000 http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/#comment-2362 Cool, cool. I meant to also say nice article by the way. Cool, cool.
I meant to also say nice article by the way.

]]> By: thewheat http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/#comment-2360 thewheat Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:19:27 +0000 http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/#comment-2360 Thanks Sven for the information. I stand corrected and I guess I should have read the page fully =) But it seems that formatting a larger partition size is more of a 'hack' of sorts and you can't normally do it in Windows without 3rd party applications. I did have a friend who couldn't format a FAT32 drive partition larger than a 16GB (if I remember correctly). Not too sure on why that was though Thanks Sven for the information. I stand corrected and I guess I should have read the page fully =) But it seems that formatting a larger partition size is more of a ‘hack’ of sorts and you can’t normally do it in Windows without 3rd party applications. I did have a friend who couldn’t format a FAT32 drive partition larger than a 16GB (if I remember correctly). Not too sure on why that was though

]]> By: Sven Oxtoby http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/#comment-2357 Sven Oxtoby Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:22:55 +0000 http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/#comment-2357 "Basically the main issues with FAT32 is that the maximum file size is 4GB and the maximum partition size is 32GB." Re: partitions, I have a 75 GB FAT32 partition on a USB HDD. I made it with the GParted live CD. I have accessed it from Debian Etch, Windows XP and OSX Leopard. Also I recall someone making a whole-disk 160 GB FAT32 partition in OSX Leopard. From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463: "You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process. Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup." “Basically the main issues with FAT32 is that the maximum file size is 4GB and the maximum partition size is 32GB.”

Re: partitions, I have a 75 GB FAT32 partition on a USB HDD. I made it with the GParted live CD. I have accessed it from Debian Etch, Windows XP and OSX Leopard. Also I recall someone making a whole-disk 160 GB FAT32 partition in OSX Leopard.

From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463:
“You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process. Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup.”

]]> By: TheWheat http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/#comment-2184 TheWheat Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:50:20 +0000 http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/#comment-2184 Yes I'm talking about external hard drives. So far I haven't had any real issues so far like your Samba issues. For Samba servers you can configure the owner and group file attributes (at least in Linux) and the files being transferred over, not sure how it is on a Mac though. Surprised Windows didn't handle that properly though Yes I’m talking about external hard drives. So far I haven’t had any real issues so far like your Samba issues. For Samba servers you can configure the owner and group file attributes (at least in Linux) and the files being transferred over, not sure how it is on a Mac though. Surprised Windows didn’t handle that properly though

]]> By: LSM http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/#comment-2182 LSM Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:18:13 +0000 http://blog.thewheatfield.org/2009/10/02/playing-nice-with-filesystems/#comment-2182 I assume you mean directly connecting a hard disk to a computer both with differing file systems (e.g. hooking up an NTFS hard disk to Linux). I remember when I was file sharing between my Windows and OS X Samba did a pretty good job on OS X's side. The only trouble is that copying files from OS X to Windows would sometimes mess up the User permissions on Windows' side, particularly the owner. My automated backup procedure would often have problems with these files because their owner was different from the User Account under which it was running as at the time. Just FYI. I assume you mean directly connecting a hard disk to a computer both with differing file systems (e.g. hooking up an NTFS hard disk to Linux).

I remember when I was file sharing between my Windows and OS X Samba did a pretty good job on OS X’s side. The only trouble is that copying files from OS X to Windows would sometimes mess up the User permissions on Windows’ side, particularly the owner. My automated backup procedure would often have problems with these files because their owner was different from the User Account under which it was running as at the time.

Just FYI.

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